TY - BOOK AU - Rudolf Muhr PY - 2016 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653071139 TI - Pluricentric Languages and Non-Dominant Varieties Worldwide T2 - Part II: The Pluricentricity of Portuguese and Spanish. New Concepts and Descriptions DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-07113-9 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050737 N2 - This is the second of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the «World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties» (WCPCL). It comprises 17 papers about two major pluricentric languages: Portuguese and Spanish. The first volume encompasses a further 30 papers about 20 PCLs and 14 NDVs. The conference was held at the University of Graz (Austria) on July 8th–11th 2015. The papers fall into six categories: (1) Theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and the description of variation in Portuguese; (2) Characteristics and developments of Brazilian Portuguese; (3) Features of non-dominant varieties of Portuguese in Asia and Africa; (4) Characteristics of national varieties of Spanish; (5) Second level pluricentricity in European Spanish and European Portuguese; (6) Migrant pluricentricity of Portuguese. LA - English ER -